Right here in America, every year since 1989, the worthy lentils are hailed and celebrated at The National Lentil Festival in Pullman, WA. Fun fact: The chili bowl at this festival can hold 650 gallons of lentil chili, which is stirred using river paddles (clean ones!)

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Egypt’s newly elected Coptic pope Tawadros II, who is to take office November 18, told Egyptian media that the church has no problem with Islamists in power in Egypt.

Tawadros said that the Coptic church is proud of Egypt’s first democratically-elected president, Mohammed Morsi, Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported.

He also told Egyptian media that he would maintain the policy of his predecessor Pope Shenouda preventing believers from visiting “occupied Jerusalem.” He said that Christians and Muslims will visit Jerusalem together “following its liberation.”

Referring to Egypt’s new draft constitution, Tawadros said that he did not read the draft but added that Copts only demand “true citizenship,” noting that they are currently discriminated against.

Yasir al-Ahmed, a spokesman for the FSA in Aleppo, expressed his disappointment in the approach the U.S. government took since the Syrian revolution started 20 months ago. He said Obama has not shown much action past his words. “We are learning towards Romney as he clearly stated to provide us with armors. Where on the other hand, we did not receive any support from Obama.”

Ahmed said he considers America to be “the strongest country in the world” and is capable of “removing and solving any worldwide issues,” however, it decided to take a freeze stand in the Syrian conflict.

“The FSA no longer aligns its goals and anticipations with the American government or any country, as they decided to sit put and watch the overflowing bloodbath, when they could’ve contributed to put an end to this massacre,” Ahmed added.

Throughout their campaigns, both Romney and Obama made clear stands regarding the aid each administration will provide to the FSA. The Obama administration publicly argued against arming the opposition whereas Romney stated clearly “the United States should work with partners to organize and arm Syrian opposition groups” to make the process more aggressive.

Presidents Obama, Bush, and Clinton all used a legal loophole enabling them to suspend relocation every six months “in the interest of national security.” However, President Obama left out a symbolic statement included in the Bush and Clinton memoranda. He deleted the line: “My Administration remains committed to beginning the process of moving our embassy to Jerusalem.”

Russian Chief of Staff General Nikolai Makarov in October said Syrian rebels had obtained shoulder-launched missile systems, including Stingers, made by the United States, but added it was not clear who had delivered the weapons.

Eisenhower understood the trade-offs between guns and butter. “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed,” he warned in 1953, early in his presidency. “The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.”

In the beautiful jasmine-scented city of Damascus, a group of teenagers gathering after midnight told jokes under the starry sky. At one point one began to tell a joke of “Mubarak, Gaddafi, and Assad,” then he stopped suddenly and to continue the joke we had to move inside the house to a closed second floor room. The joke was told with a hushed voice. The fear was “you never know who could be listening; it might be the garbage collector or a neighbour!”

I was reminded of these stories when I read about Ayman Al-Brince, who was talking to a group of friends at a cafe and criticising some political moves made by our president. Al-Brince is now facing charges of “insulting the president.”

On top of incidents like the cancellation of Al-Minya concert; the banning of a song in some movie; and lately the problems with censorship faced by a theatre director for a play about the revolution and Egyptian politics; if coffee table talk leads to jail, then even jokes are risky because they will definitely call for charges of “insulting the president.”

Do the Muslim Brotherhood and our president intend to imitate oppressive regimes and scare us into silence? Will they ban books and movies and songs and arts and concerts under the name of righteousness and religion? Will they ban talking and discussions and gathering, under the auspices of insulting the president?

Do they honestly believe that people will take this lying down? Don’t they see all the protests across the country? In the second half of September alone, over 300 protests, sit-ins and marches were documented.Since our revolution, Egyptians have learned to speak up, to voice their frustrations, how do our rulers think they will stop this? Kill us all?

5 I am ADONAI; there is no other; besides me there is no God. I am arming you, although you don't know me, 6 so that those from the east and those from the west will know that there is none besides me - I am ADONAI; there is no other. 7 I form light, I create darkness; I make well-being, I create woe; I, ADONAI, do all these things.

Let’s be real: The differences between President Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney don’t extend to national security. The campaign revealed that both candidates seeking the presidency on Tuesday will launch drone strikes and commando raids against terrorists,wind down the Afghanistan war, and pressure Iran. Probably the only thing that can unmoor U.S. foreign policy tonight is not knowing who won the election, which will mean chaos, doom, cats and dogs living together, and other mass hysteria.

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7 Technologies That Will Make It Easier for the Next President to Hunt and Kill You

Robotic assassination campaigns directed from the Oval Office. Cyber espionage programs launched at the president's behest. Surveillance on an industrial scale. The White House already has an incredible amount of power to monitor and take out individuals around the globe. But a new wave of technologies, just coming online, could give those powers a substantial upgrade. No matter who wins the election on Tuesday, the next president could have an unprecedented ability to monitor and end lives from the Oval Office.

The current crop of sensors, munitions, control algorithms, and data storage facilities have helped make the targeted killing of American adversaries an almost routine affair. Nearly 3,000 people have been slain in the past decade by American drones, for instance. The process will only get easier, as these tools of war become more compact, more powerful, and more precise. And they will: Moore's Law applies in the military and intelligence realms almost as much as it does in the commercial sphere.

First. I am certain that Penetta realizes that we have very specially trained folks whose job it is to execute missions just like what was needed in Benghazi. On the other hand, maybe he didn’t, since both of the Generals who he supposedly consulted with have a grand total of ZERO days duty in any Special Operations organization. In fact, they are both old tankers. The senior of which, General Dempsy, has aMaster's degree in literature from Duke University, where he wrote a thesis on the Irish poet W B Yeats. He was a Captain then, and that thesis alone should have rendered him ineligible for promotion to field grade officer.

Second, and this is very important. I don’t know what Penetta’s definition of “real-time information” is, but I suspect that, if Eisenhower had the same doctrine, we’d still be sitting in England waiting to invade Europe.

the taco meat is cooked and ready. people can serve themselves as they come home tonight.

I might just spread mine over some fritos with some guac, sour cream, and pico sauce. When I worked at Wright-Patt we used to go to the VFW on fridays and that's one of the way they served tacos. Paper Plate supper night. Yee hawww!

from the documentary The Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who, Moon attended one of The Who's concerts and looked up at Roger Daltrey in the middle of the concert and said "i hear your looking for a drummer" i can do much better than that guy you have now...after that they had him audition, after seeing moon smash the sh*t out of his drum kit in that audition he joined The Who - he was only 17

yes, scroll down to the map and you get the count. it's too early to mean anything, but it's pretty much real time. Hover over the map and get the count as they come in. You can even view the votes my county. I can't find the 1 vote for Jerry Garcia though.. I am outraged of course and demand the Justice Department start an investigation immediately!

Years from now, when we look back at these last days and weeks before this 2012 election, what we're going to remember is how intensely millions of Americans hated during this time, how many shameless and dishonorable lies were told as the race tightened (we scratched and clawed at each other like sewer rats over every absurd factual dispute, finding ways to shriek at each other even over things that by definition are nobody's fault, even over acts of God like Hurricane Sandy) and how reflexively people on opposite sides of the race disbelieved each other and laid blame at each others' feet over just about every issue, important or (more often) not.

I bought a rather amazing device for my office here. It's a small, stylish space heater that, with a flick of the remote control, can become a compact FAN. It's the perfect thing for a menopausal woman!

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Should GOD reward you on your terms then, when you refuse to repent? You must decide, not I... So, tell me what you know... ~ Job 34:33

"You surrender in your own name. Leave me out of it. "

Obey & Endure

No matter how many times I explain to people that I understand that they feel lost and helpless and betrayed by their leaders in the face of the Jihad, that I understand deeply that these are the only people that you perceive to be "standing up to jihad" - no matter how much irrefutable information I give you that many of these so called anti jihadists are just as bad as the jihad itself - You will turn the blind eye out of expedience, out of fear, out of laziness, out of shallowness of moral character, out of stupidity, out of tribal affiliation, out of complacency, out of ignorance, out of vanity, out of hatred.... take your pick. In any event you will chose to stay blind. Let those who have eyes, see:

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If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

~ Leviticus 20:13

Next time someone tries to shove some Homo Stultus dogma down your throat it would please me very much if you would use the following links to express your disinterest in their Darwingelical Dawkins Da'Wa....